INDIAN OCEAN
Resolution at U.N. (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, Dec. 6. The United Nations General Assembly’s main political committee has adopted a resolution to declare the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace. By a vote of 72 to nil, with 35 abstentions, the committee accepted a draft co-spon-sored by 28 “Third World” nations.
The draft would also have the General Assembly appoint an ad hoc committee to study the implications of the proposal, with special reference to measures aimed at furthering the resolution’s primary object. The ad hoc committee would report to the next session of the General Assembly. Of the nuclear Powers, only China voted for the resolution; the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France abstained.
The Chinese representative (Mr Chen Chu) said that the proposal to make the ocean a zone of peace reflected the urgent desire of Africans and Asians to “assert their national sovereignty, and to oppose super-Power aggression.” New Zealand abstained in the vote, her representative (Mr John Scott) explaining that his delegation had not yet received instructions from the newly-elected Labour Party Government.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 17
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